Multirate Techniques in Filter Design and Implementation

Abstract

Digital filters with sharp transition bands are difficult, sometimes impossible, to be implemented using single-stage structures. A serious problem with a single-stage sharp FIR filter is its complexity. The FIR filter length is inversely proportional to the transition–width and complexity becomes prohibitively high for sharp filters, (Lim, 1986). IIR filters with sharp transition bands suffer from extremely high sensitivities of transfer function poles. In many practical cases, the multirate approach is the promising solution that could be applied for implementation of a sharp FIR or IIR filter. In this chapter, we present two methods for designing filters having narrow transition bandwidths: multistage filtering suitable for narrowband filters, and the method based on multirate and complementary filtering, which may be used for filters of arbitrary bandwidths.